D. Nicholas Overall

A Logical God: Exploring a Spiritual and Physical Life D. Nicholas Overall

ABOUT THE BOOK A Logical God - Exploring a Spiritual and Physical World investigates the development of early religious reasoning that caused a wide variety of unique beliefs to evolve. Most early civilizations were frightened by death and curious and amazed by the apparent power of unknown "spirits" during violent changes in the earth's environment such as storms or geotectonic eruptions. However, the silence and beauty of the night skies with the moon, stars and unpredictable planets created different thoughts of wonder about what produced these natural phenomena. Some chose to invent deities to be the sources of power over everything known and unknown The topics of science and religion are investigated early in A Logical God. As people became more knowledgeable of basic science, they began to explore the sources of the energy that could be responsible for creating life, the world and the heavens. Thus, the theories of creation and physical evolution are compared to evaluate beliefs in religion versus scientific naturalism. This requires evaluating the development and beliefs of the major organized religions. Subsequent chapters discuss the details of specific beliefs of the Judeo-Christian religions. The latter half of the book explores basic topics such as the God of the Jews and Christians, each person's physical and spiritual existence before and after death. A Logical God closes by discussing everyone's responsibility for utilizing their faith to take action toward truly improving life on earth. By strengthening and utilizing spiritual faith, individuals can unite and create positive influences on society and our environment by directing technology to focus more on communities' most basic problems.